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Jun 16, 2021 at 18:44 comment added suchiuomizu With the exception of the walking to and from school (and even that happened for people who were close enough) and especially going home at lunch these continued at least into the 80s and 90s, though I don't pay enough attention to what kids generally do to have had sense of what they have done since then.
Jun 14, 2021 at 17:52 comment added Pieter Geerkens @AllInOne: I lived it, I know.
Jun 14, 2021 at 17:10 comment added AllInOne @PieterGeerkens you may be interested in the coverage of a report published by Natural England and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds which firmly supports your personal account for the UK: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/…
Oct 18, 2018 at 17:43 comment added Amorphous Blob Even in Northridge, CA (in the San Fernando valley) 1966-70, we'd walk around anywhere for a couple of miles, go thru housing developments being built... and there weren't any neighbors looking out for us. Today's parents are too scared (I have a 14-yo and an 18-yo) of vanishingly small threats, and even at my son's Middle School (6th-8th grades) there's assigned seating at lunch, no metal knives, and no salt packets because some kids would dump some salt on some other kid's meal when the latter left to get something.
Jan 13, 2014 at 23:23 comment added Pieter Geerkens @Michael: Succinct; but roughly correct I think.
Jan 13, 2014 at 4:16 comment added Michael It sounds like liberation of women enslaved their children...
Jan 12, 2014 at 20:23 history answered Pieter Geerkens CC BY-SA 3.0